The Fine Art Of French Decorating: Pocket The Fashion Of Julia Child's Kitchen
Back inwards November, Julia Child's onetime French cottage, known affectionately every bit "La Pitchoune," or "the niggling one," hitting the marketplace for the starting fourth dimension time, listed at or then $880,000. The famous chef's stucco getaway was built on the grounds of Simone Beck, co-author of The Art of French Cooking. Child as well as her married adult man Paul visited the 1,614-square-foot habitation every yr from the fourth dimension it was built into the 1990s, amongst the understanding that ownership would render to Simone as well as her married adult man 1 time they were through amongst it. That happened inwards 1992, afterward Simone died. The kitchen of La Pitchoune was modeled afterward the 1 inwards the Childs' Cambridge, Massachusetts, habitation (which y'all tin come across on display at the Smithsonian), consummate amongst extra-tall counters — Julia was 6-foot-2 — and pegboard inwards lieu of upper cabinets, pre